Wooden scoop-shovel



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J. L. LOGKE.

WOODEN SCOOP SHOVEL.

No. 308,910. Patented Dec 9, 1884. v

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. LOCKE, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

WOODEN SCOOP-SHOVEL.

EPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,910, dated December 9, 1884.

Application filed April 11, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN L. LOOKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful WVooden Scoop-Shovel, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of wooden scoop-shovels having the scoop or bowl made of wood and attached to the handle; and the objects of my invention are to so construct the bowl and so attach it to the handle as to combine lightness, strength, and durability. I at tain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front perspective view of a scoop-shovel constructed in accordance with the invention. View of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional view 011 the line 0090 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the blank unbent of which the metallic tip is formed. Fig. 5 is a sectional view on line y y of Fig. '1, showing the bottom A fitted into grooves in the side pieces; and Fig. 6 is a sectional View on the same line 3 y, showing the side pieces and the bottom joined by a rabbetjoint.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

' A is the bottom of the scoop-bowl. This is made of thin tough wood, and when great strength is required it should be made ofthreeply veneer, the grain of the middle veneer running in a different direction from the grain in the outside veneers.

B B are the sides of the bowl. These are made of thin tough wood, cut into suitable form. G is the heel of the scoop-bowl. It is made from a board thicker than the side pieces, B B. The side pieces, B B, are attached to the piece 0 by nails, screws, dovetails, glue, or in any other suitable manner. The bottom A is attached to the side pieces, BB, and heel G by means of nails, glue, screws, or other suitable means, and the bottom piece, A, may be nailed to the side pieces, as shown in Fig. 3, or may fit into a groove, as shown in Fig. 5, or form a rabbet-joint with the side pieces, as shown in Fig.6. At the front end of the scoop is a metallic toe or tip, which is bent Fig. 2 is a back perspective over so as to form a tip to the bottom A, and also to bind the bottom A to the side pieces, B B. The form of this metallic tip may be varied; but a very strong tip can bemade from a blank piece of metal cut into the form shown by Fig. 4. The blank is bent on the dotted lines shown in Fig. 4, the part a being the up- .per side of the tip, and a the lower side.

\Vhen the blank is folded and applied to the bowl, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the rivet 1? passes through three thicknesses of the tip and through the side piece, B, and the rivet P passes through three thicknesses of the tip and through the bottom A, thus securely bind 'ing the bottom A and the side pieces, B B,

together-Q Other rivets may be used, if re quired.

F is the wooden handle, which is in the ordinary form, but has a part of the front side out out, so that the heelG fits into it, as shown in Fig. 3.

E and E are two metallic strips-one, E,

passing down on the upper side of the handle into the bowl, and the other, E, passing down on the back side of the handle beneath the bowl, as shown in Fig. 3.

R It are rivets attaching E and E to the handle. The rivet It passes through the heel 0, metal strips E and E, and handle F, clasping the heel 0 very firmly, while B passes through the strips E and E and bottom A. In this manner the handle is securely and firmly attached to the bowl.

G G is a thin metal strip passing around the heel of the shovel, as shown in Fig. 2, binding the bottom and side pieces to the heel, and is carried up and riveted in front, as shown in Fig. 1.

In case of scoops to be used for light work, where little strength is required, the bindingstrip G Gmay be dispensed with.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to have invented, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a wooden scoop-shovel, in combination with the bottom piece and side pieces, the metal tip for binding the front ends of the side pieces and bottom piece and securing them together, the said tip being bent over the ends of the side pieces, and lapped on itself, as shown, so that the corner-rivets pass away handle F- and the binding-strips E E, IO through three thicknesses of metal, substan- 1 which serve to secure the handle to the back tially as described. and bottom pieces andthe latter together, sub- 2. In a wooden scoop-shovel, the bottom 1 stantially as described.

piece, the upright side pieces, and the back T r ,1

end piece bound and secured together by the i JOE) LOOIXL' metallic strip G, passing from the top of the end piece entirely around its sides, and the bottom piece, in combination with the out XVitnesses:

FRED WV. STEVENS, EDWARD TAGGART. 

